The Overtime Theater and the Cameo Theater opened a couple of fun shows last weekend; here’s a look at them: “In One Take!” Oregon-based playwright Martin Follose’s comedy is set during the silent film era, and focuses on flop-prone director Maxwell Stinnett (well-drawn by Matthew Legare) whose career is on his last legs. His last […]
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John Johnston has stepped down as the curator of Asian art at the San Antonio Museum of Art. He is leaving at the end of February to complete his doctoral studies in Chinese ceramics at the University of London. Johnston, who was trained at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and the University of Hawaii and […]
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The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, which opened last September, made Pollstar’s lists of the top theater venues in the nation and the world. The Tobin Center came in at 61 on the trade publication’s list of the top 200 theaters in the United States and 79th in the world. It was also ranked […]
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Tobias Picker has left his post as artistic director of Opera San Antonio. According to a press release, Picker is leaving to focus on other projects, including a commission from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and his work consulting with other opera companies. Picker has been on board with the company […]
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SAN ANTONIO – On a fateful anniversary, Tuesday was really the night the music lived. “Buddy — The Buddy Holly Story” arrived Tuesday at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts on the 56th anniversary of the deaths of pioneering rock ‘n’ rollers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson in a […]
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The Briscoe Western Art Museum and San Antonio B-cycle are partnering to help you express your love this Valentine’s Day — or rather Pony Express it — in writing. Through Feb. 12, the museum will feature a letter writing station with paper, envelopes and a vintage 1930s Remington typewriter for museum visitors to who […]
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The addition to the Edith McAllister Ceramics Building on the Southwest School of Art’s Ursuline campus is complete. The Dennis Smith Studio and Alberto Mijangos Gallery Corridor were dedicated at a ceremony last week. The studio honors Smith, a professor and chair of the ceramics department, who will retire this year after 40 years as […]
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UPDATE: On Tuesday morning, the Tobin announced that there actually are still about 40 tickets left for seats onstage. Word has been issued from the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts that the 7 p.m. Sunday ( Feb. 8) concert featuring famed violinist Itzhak Perlman is “100 percent sold out.” Even with 66 seats added […]
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